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Experimental

Games that defy the traditional approach to game design and offer unique, interesting and often strange experiences.

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Retro

Featuring aesthetics, gameplay, or themes reminiscent of classic video games. Often characterized by pixel art, chiptune music, or mechanics popularized in earlier gaming eras.

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An android is led through a vast structure by a glitch in his visual system
Action
The world's only game of Tetris... that's also Minesweeper
Puzzle
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Adventures in a Dead MMO
Role Playing
REFLEXIA's story starts out as a parody of its genre and ends as a psychological drama.
Visual Novel
ABANDONED ARCHIVES OF THE WEDNESDAY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
You Should Never Have Found This Game
Platformer
A dungeon crawler with an experimental combat system.
Adventure
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You are now a dog, trying to escape an unknown new world you just woke up into
Platformer
A liminal game about love, apotheosis and rot.
Visual Novel
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The Space Between is a surreal narrative experience in three acts.
Adventure
A spooky elevator simulator.
Simulation
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Five Short Experimental Games
Action
Gather workplace intel in a game inspired by 70s spy films and the IWW
Educational
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An atmospheric horror micro-game about anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.
Virtual Relaxation Software
A spooky box moving simulator.
Adventure
Surrealistic action-adventure RPG; With nerves of steel and wits to match, discover the secrets of The Midnight Station
Action
Just a frustrating PLATFORMER TYPING game
Platformer
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Idle talk between a pair of people on a road trip to Pluto.
Visual Novel
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A short proof of concept/mood vignette/love letter to Kurosawa.
Visual Novel
Spider mecha rave-synced bullet hell
Hit the cube to get all the items on the levels.
Shooter
An Entirely Pleasant Nightmare
Role Playing
A haunting, dying world foreshadowing rebirth.
Adventure
One cold rainy night, you get a call to fill in for someone's shift however, this restaurant holds a dark secret.
Adventure
A Strange Computer In a Strange Place
Adventure
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
Platformer
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Health and ammo are the same...
Platformer
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A tiny lovecraftian experience
Interactive Fiction
Short Anthology Horrors
Survival
a happy game about pleasant things
Adventure
Just water
Action
Dive deeper and deeper into dreams in this short musical experience.
Adventure
the lake opens for all
Adventure
Not "another pixel-art game".
Action
3D platformer in a retro 8-bit systemic environment. Destroy the viruses and find the cure to save the System Antivirus!
Adventure
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